Summary
'The Boulder Taller Than the Great Tower of Seville' is about an encounter that Spanish explorer with Native Americans. The Natives tell the group how to go on a journey to explore the area. The natives tell the people about the distances there are and amount of time it takes to get to the place, and in going it seems as if the people lied. As the story continues, it turns out the times and distances were like the Native Americans said were correct.
Reflection
The story is about the perception of the expression of things. The time it took to go down to the river was three days, but it seemed to only be six feet away. It took the group 20 days to reach a village that seemed to be three miles away. The width of the river appeared to be less that a few feet wide, but in reality it was really a half a league wide. The natives were right. This, in relation to the American dream of Identity, shows the different interpretations of concepts and expression. The natives expressed the times and distances in a manner that was indirectly figurative, as the distances were not what they seemed similar to a idiom.
THey SAID IT BEST
"The information supplied by the Indians, it must have been half a league wide
-Garcia Lopez de Cardenas
-Garcia Lopez de Cardenas